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Eight-year-old Robbie Macartney is on his way to becoming the youngest businessman in the southwest.

Macartney's doodles and artwork from stories he has written have quickly gone viral after doing a reading at the Lyric Theatre's Youth Talent Stage, and people like Premier Brad Wall have been pre-ordering from "Randoms by Robbie" to get a shirt of their own by the talented Swift Current artist.

"One time Mom brought home a craft and she brought home these t-shirts and some tye-dye, too. When we were just colouring on the tye-dye, I was doing my usual artwork on the t-shirt, and then Mom said 'this looks great'. So then one time when I went to the Lyric Theatre, after my show I said 'And I'll be selling t-shirts at the back," said Macartney. "We got so busy with the t-shirts that we started having to silk screen print them."

During the interview, Macartney pulled out a number of drawings of William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Edison from the binders overflowing with his other work. Historical figures often appear in his writing and grace the front of the t-shirts, as the depictions come from the stories he has written.

"One day I was drawing and I thought it would be cool if I started drawing historical figures, so I started drawing Isaac Newton... Did you know Isaac Newton was actually named after the scientific phrase 'Newton'?"

He recently won an award for story telling and speech arts at this year's Music Festival with a story that he wrote and illustrated.

"It was about a dog named Smitty and a man named Mr. Roberto who wants to take him to the pound, and three cats," explained Macartney. "He gets lost at the dog park, and then he meets the family of cats. After that, they wake up in Mr. Roberto's house in kennels, and Jim is one of the cats and he saw a paper clip lying on the ground, and so he unlocked his cage and unlocked all of his friends and they ran away. Mr. Roberto noticed that they were gone, and then he hopped in his car and Mr. Roberto was chasing them until they ran back home to the owner. It ended up that the owner kept the cats, because they were stray cats."

The young entrepreneur has been selling special order t-shirts for $10 a piece, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Salvation Army, and will now be selling t-shirts at Market Square this summer as well.

"At the Market Square this year I am going to be selling it there, and if we don't have the t-shirt you want, we'll pre-order, and if you want somebody on a t-shirt, we'll also do that."

With a very bright future ahead of him, Macartney says he hopes to study animation and animals in the future.